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HHt .hob and abroad. " I he Latest Intelligences by Telegraph and Cable. uccessful Trial Trip of the Battleshio Monterey. Tha managers of the Union Iron Works. ! San Francisco. Cal., have given the new 1st defence vessel Monterey a preliminary L The trial was regarded as highly satisboth by the contractors and the n^^hMsentatives who were present. It make some slight adjust jHH^^^^rmachinery bat ore incraasspeed of from teii-Ui WjWiiMB,n(t'i it was shown that ,v~et a.u~t forwards' Water U^Vber Cow and grenHx. .?uiu'-ue u; ffl^WincreaseJ, until right at tfce potn|Hw tbere was a stea iy toMMttpo^v. HBr from four to five fe^abAnretiepk. over the forwar ipftrVof ttoQecJ: I tfyx , ;/,jv'vf5?et the requiremeats of the contract. Sevof the engineers speak in especially/ BK|Bgfp * favorable terms of the Ward coil Doilepg; fcSkffi?" -which were placed in the Monterey bv/tha jptT^ Navy Department, partly by wayoi^/fta exi Scenes ot '49 Related. One of the greatest/gold excitements BMBKBunoe the days of jiftT is at present atMjttgggra^Mctin? the auction of the entire KHflfRnsS^Hti and thop^fanHa of people from AriiffiKMaafiML New j^fexic0 Southern Colorado SEWil^H^BTtak - r . . , ?.i a.u. rusimxg lntp mcso uew ucjua The excitement is unHnBSHEM^WTeled and towns along the Denver and jra^lHHpQre^ both in Southern Colorado and 3New Mexico are almost depopulated. Nearly 3'JOO people are already upon the scene, and the new diggings are said to Gp^ have made prospectors wealth? in a day. It was for some time a matter of conjecture as to the exact location of these remarkable placer mines. Investigation makes them KpHSBBH^Lnost accessible from Durango and Dolores. g?S|||&V[t is said the Denver and Rio Grande is al? nffijKnllW ready surveying a line and tons of provis^^Mlions are being continuously forwarded. Nuggets of coarse gold have been received ranging in weight from ten to fifteen ounces @ySH^ and are similar to those discovered in Califomia Gulch at the time of the Leadville rtT^ifLoinpnt. (Starving Indians. Reports received from Guthrie point to t;reat suffering in the Western part of Oklahoma Territory, while up in the Cherokee Strip there are reported Indian troubles on ^^account of shortage of rations. * Fort Reno has not yet been called for tucop?, but an unofficial announcement says that the Indian bucks of the blanket tribas are dancing, while the women are starving, u The rations were not nearly enough for a ' calm winter, not to speak. of the sort of r -weather that is now prevaling. In one place ten Indians in oae tepee have bad but 1 ten pounds of meat for over a week, with heavy soggy bread and no coffee or other iw stimulant. There are many sick in the tribes who are djing rapidly, while the settlers who come inon tiie Arapahoe lauds are suffering for lack of clothing and food. They have lost alltheir stock by cold or starvation, and the ouipok for their own safety is gloo ny. Fourteen Lives Lo3C. Anost disastrous conflagration has oe-y currd at Berson, ^ village of Gironde, Frai^ aQd fourteen of the villagers were P| B elthf burned to death in their homes or MHhB weririiiej while attempting to escape. TtHflatnes, fanned by a high wind,spread MKBsS3Fj5> With hghttul rapidity, and it was early BjgigjgllE s?ea t^t the efforts to flgbt the Are would E?9jv9r.&: less. Attention was t ben turned to ^ia'yig'the aged and little cbll dren, and it t ITS to this Work of rescue that several of villagers lo3t their lives. SRHmEHK|?/Tb6 greater part of the village was dered, and the inhabitants are in great Zw^^^Rt-'traits owing to the lack of food and proper B'fhe reai'lents or surrouaaiag vudoing all ia their power to allevisufferings. ftident Harrison's Fat are. atement in a San Francisco di?> ct President Harrison at the exit bis term oC offico will become ir ot the faculty of the Stanford ;y, haying aocaptad a propdeliver a series of lectures on law resident professor, receives partial -v ownurtnation ia Washington. It is ascer> 1 tained that the matter baa been informally V discussed, bat has not been formally brought \to the President's attention. \ Montana's Official Vote. The official canvass of the vote of Montana S *how8 'the highest Harrison elector ?* ? T*in?iii-r nf 1270 over the V VUK ? f??v highest Cleveland elector. Har' rl9on.polled 18,S51 votss; Cleveland, 17,531: f Weaver, 7385. The E8Dublicans elect Hartr-an to Congress by 17i plurality and the entire State ticket, except Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. How Indians Paul a Judgment. A white man na med Cora recently sued a Creek Indian at Gutbri?, Oklahoma, forun, paid wages and secured a judgment in the United States Court. A party of Indians called at the man's ho use, bound him and carried him to the wood?, where his body was found hanging to a tree next day. EXECUTION. IrotPirick M cGaire Killrd by Two Shod lS in Sinjf Sing. Frederick Mc Gruire, who murdered old * w Mrs. Noah Greg* ?ry near Middletown, N. Y., y -a year ago for n^oney, was executed in Sing ? Sing Prison a t&w days ago. ? There was no'; a tremor in Mc Quire's walk .? Ka ohwift f rrt-n hia /*all tn t.ha ohnir / surrounded by guards and with the Rev. i llr. Conk ling ' and Prison Chaplain Silas I Edgerton besides him. Waiting to see the ( execution we/e the full number of wit.* jesses allowed by law. ? ^After Mc3uire sat down In the chair the elecNtyodes were adjusted, and the straps fascenet^ji while the clergymen read the prayer oTk dying. In forty seconds all -was read%. A current of 1S00 volts was sh0t through ^ the nyatFg body, which instantly stiffened intythe rigidit/ of death. For four secon?g this terrible current was continued. ^Gmen it was re lucel lor a period of Ave Seconds to 150 volts, fitter wnich tie lull ^oltage was applied agafiv All the while a / sponge had been dripping wjt watar on thi electrodes. Tnere was no scVehing or blis - - term* of the skin. When the eNctncity was first applied McGu;r.-'s :?o > turtle 1 red ani then changed to a deep purple. Dr. lrv;ng listens t intently to tt9 heart, which flutters 1 Jor 51 } $ seconds aftir thj current was finally switched off, an t pronounced the man deal. The autopsy showed conditions entirely nirailar to those whlca would have followed natural death. The ^xecut on differed from previous killings by electricity only in the matter ot the application. Heretofore there have been two or more di?vinct contacts. In the case of McGuire there was only one, the current instead of being entire! v interrupts.! being reduced at oil? time to 15 > volt#. maxik sweet, aged twelve years, daughter oC the head waiter at the Wyoming House at Scranton, Penn., leaped from a seventh-story window at her home to escape punishment for having wrongly de.iverela package for her mother. She fell 125 feet and suffered no injury other than a dU-. located shoulder and a severe cut on one ieg. m ^ ' ""V FIFTY-SECOND^ CONGBESS. | In the Senate. "Ta DaT.?A speech in favor of ths claimant in tho famous McGarrahan cas? was made by Mr. Hunton, of Virginia??Mr. George thea finished his three days' speech in favor of the Anti-Option bill Thase* hills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Powers?An amendment which he proloses to offer to the pending bill defining options and futures, a lding silver oullioa to tbe list of armies the dealer in whica must obtain a licanss. By Mr. Cameron?To allow naval ofHcars on shore duty not provide! with Government quarters commutations for quarters in the same manner and at the same rates as they are allowed to o(Hears of the army. By Mr. Quay?To provide an American registry for the steamer ucaaaic or rnuadelphia. 8th Day.?The Senate adjourned soon aft?r meeting, upon the motion of Mr. Gorman as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, 10th DaV.?The sale of Brooklyn Navy Sard land was authored Mr. Bate discussed the bill to repeal the Federal Election law??An effort to nave the New York awl INew Jersey Bridge bill taken up was defeated?Mr. Cullom introduced amendments to the Interstate Commerce Law? The Anti-Option bill was discussed at length. 11th Day.?Mr. Perkins addressed the Senate on the subject of the policy to be oursued as to the Indian Territory Mr. Palmer finished his argument against the Anti-Option bill. Mr. Fetter began, but did aot flnisb, a speech in favor of it?-Mr. Uunton continued, but did not conclude, nis irgument in favor of the McGarrahan bill -?The Nicaragua Canal bill was reported ay Mr. Sherman The concurrent resolution for the holiday recess was agreed to. In the House. '' 9th Day.?The House agree i to a resolu;ion for a holiday recess from Thursday. Da:ember 22, until Wednesday, January 4 The floor <vas then (under the special order) iccurded to the Coinmlttea on Indian Af!airs. Tha first bill called up was one mthorizing the Secretrry of the Treasury to cover into the Treasury 54S.800 of the appropriation for the Chooaw and Chickasaw Indians. Passed^? 1 bill was passed to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Kickapoo Indians in Dklahoma Territory Air. Antony introiuced a bill repealing the ac; of June 27, lb90, granting p?nsious to soldiers and sailers and to widows, minor caildren, and dependent parents of soldiers and sailors. The Dili aiSO proviues tuut an pcudtuu.i j^tauvga aoder the act sha 1 be discontinue J. 10th Day.?The House held a short ses? lion. The Speaker presented a communicadon from "Secretary Tracy, submitting in estimate oi appropriation of f300,000 for the completion of the dry dock at Puget Sound; also a letter from W. B. Franklin, President of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, enclosing am estimate for a deficiency appropriation of $32,558 for aid to estate and Territorial homes for the fiscal year 1S93 ?-These bills were introduced: Providing that railrnnrt eornorations s jail. for the purposes of jurisdiction, be decreed citizens of the respective States into which tbeir lines ot railway extend, or in which they conduct or carry on their business. Providing that companies of the hospital corps organizi I by the Secretary of War in the medical department of the army shall be established upon the same military statu* as companies of infantry l'he Senate bill for the enlargement of the military post at , Fort Wayne, Ind., and the bill appropriate ' ing $50,000 to enable the Secretary ot War to acquire a good and valid title to the Fore Brown Reservation were passed. 11th Day.?A bill was passed to increase the pensions of Mexican War veterans? A bul to extend Ross Winan's patent covering whalebacks was defeated?These bills were introduced; \A bill to equalize the pay of officers of the navy, f Atoi sAlnrinq of PAoh gradf'and provides for a longevity increase. Atall for tne establishment of a bureau of ftfngressional service. A bill providing that ,do perron receiving pav in the naval or military service of the United States shall receive any pay whatever from the Government for any other service. 12th Bat.?The House considered various private bills, called up and passed under unanimous consent No determination wa arrived at on the Indian Claim bill ?The House then proceeded to the consideration ot the special order, being the reoorts called up by the Committee on Public Lands. , 13th Day.?Mr. Greenleaf introduced for reference a bill appropriating jf300.000 for the establishment of a military post at Rochester, N". Y. In Committee of the Whole the House considerel the bill proTiding for sundry lighthouses aud other aids to navigation. It provides ror an expenditure of #550.001 A half-hour limitation was placed upon toe discussion. Mr. An? thony opp^ ed the Dill, aud the House, oeing without a quorum, was obliged tr adjourn' WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. The American flag now floats from the Administration building at Jackson Park to signify that the World's Fair buildincrs and grounds are in the possession of the United States Government. Ohio will erect a mineral cibin in the Mines building at the World's Fair to illastrate its mineral resources. The caDin will be 32xtfl feet in dimensions and twentythree feet high and be constructed eutireij of Ohio mineral products. An* effort is being made to arrange for a grand reunion at the World'.* Fair of sur ViVlUg ?UUO U1CU 1C1U U1CU homes in the East in 1849 to become goldhunters iu California, it is thought that several thousand of them are still living. The installation of exhibits has already begun, but has not yet progressed far. Soon, however, the interior of each one of the buildings will be the scane of great activity. The authorities are determined to have all exhibits in place at the opening of the Fair. Trrw -1. TT lac, cuu^uuuii OAUiuiu au uua HUIIUS Fair is to have the space it requires. A new building costing 11^0,000 has been ordered for the ethnological exhibit, which accordingly is hereby removed from the Manufactures anl Liberal Arts building, thus allowing more space for the educational exhibit. The section from one of the big California redwood trees, which the Government will exhibit in Us building at the World's Fair, has arrived at the Fair grounds. Eleven freight cars were required to convey it across the continent. It measures thirty feet long by twenty-thi ee feet m diameter. The section is hollowed out and when placed on end, divided into two stories and lighted, as it wilt be, it will form a rustic house large enough tor a family to live in. Ihe most approved methods of artificial ice making and cold storage will be exhibited at tho World's Fair, These processes will be shown in a very tine buildin ?, 130x 'i55 feet, and live stories high, with observatories at the corners and a lofty tower at tbe centre. About eighty tons of ice will manufactured riailv thma mat.hnrla ho. ing employed, namely: The plate system, trom tittered water; the can system, from c juuen?cd steam filtered and purified, and the can system from deaerated water. Three different processes of cooling rooms will also be snown. CITY VAULTS RIFLED, A. Treasurer's Son and Assistant Commit Suicide in Consequence. The other morning the vaults of tbe City Treasurer at the City Hall in St. Louifl, iTo were found open ani a number of papers therefrom had been placid on a Mi Die in toe omce, burned. Later it was learned that ? i Fo2rstel, son of City Treasurer Foarstel, and bis assistant haa committed suicide. A Kiisnioinn whs Arnnsprl t.hnfc -rniincr Foeratel was short in his accounts, and that the fire had been started with a view ot destroying; the evidence of the defalcation. It has been known for some time that Edwarl Foeratel had negotiated a loan tcrougft a man of the name of T. W. Yew. Tbe indorsements of these notes by Foerstol were declared to be lorgeries oy Mr. Foers tel. The affair is very much complijated. Treasurer Foeratel says his son's acxrnntx are straight, and that be cannot explain Edward's action. I 3k tm CM?JT Greater Excitementjrhan Ever Oyer the Panama Scandals. The Air Full of Run^^of Boy- ; alist _ I A cablegram from Paris says: The excitement in France over the Panama scandals is greater than ever, and the wildesl reports are afloat of monarchist plots and coming arresti It is assorted that Herz J has been in communication in London with a?ents of the Count of Paris, and thn.t the exposure of the Thierree checks is directly attributable to royalist influence. Another rumor is that the officials and deputies as well as civilian; connected with the Panama scandal have had it intimated to them that their salvation lies in an espousal of royalist schemes, and that all their offences will be condoned if they will ( consent to betray the republic. Some confidence is placed by well informed people in both these rumors, and it is apparent that royalist agents have as- J sumed an activity they had not displayed fnr rooiM imri there is also evidence tnat royalist money is again afloat. Should affairs take a turn favorable to a coup d'etat in behalf of royalty, it is probable, according to current reports, that the young Duke of Orleans would ba selected to lead the attack. The young Duke is more i popular than any other member of his fam- 1 lly. and bis offer to serve in the army as a conscript, when ho came of age, made a wide and favorable impression. i The great difficulty in the way of a royalist coup is that there are no signs of disloyalty in the army. M. de Freycinet, the Minister of War, is untouched by the scandals that have besmirched his colleague. Rouvier, and he has the devotion and loyal , attachment ot tbe omciais ia nigaer command. The military forces in the neighborhood of Paris are kept under the strictest aisclpline and the greatest vigilance is exercised ( to prevent tampering with the troops. The officers of the army are, as a rule, of Republican sympathies; the royalist and Bonapartist element", and especially the former, have been relegated on various ' pretexts to Innocuous positions. The Government, it is said, has no doubt whatever of the fidelity of the troops and would at once call upon the garrison of Paris in case of an outbreak on the part of the royalists. The zeal of the enemies of the republic is also checked by the report current unofficially that no doubt is held by anybody that * ' U. 1 _ in the event of an insurrection maru*i would at once be proclaimed and every insurgent captured and shot on the spot or 1 executed alter a summary court martial. It is known that the officers of the navy are much more royalist in their tendency than those of the army, but no danger to the republic is expected from the navy,as it is believed that the officers iu command, however ardently some of them might welcome the re-establishment of monarchy, would hesitate long before risking the loss of their desirable positions. , The movements of the monarchist agitators are being carefully watched by ag9nfc* of the Government in France, in Englan i and in Spain, and a special watch is bein? kept at the passes of the Pyrenees for the purpose of guarding against a royalist movement from that direction. The news from various parts of Franca is not reassuring to the Government, and serves to strengthen the hopes of its enimie.-. l'hfl many thousands of small proprietors and other3 who lost their money in th3 Manama enterprise are said to b? more disgusted with the revelations of venality and treachery than they were distressed by the i03s oi their money, and a considerable number of them are inclined to hold Republican institutions rather than individuals responsible for the loss and disgrace. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. The Scotch journeys of Queen Victoria annually cost her private purse *30,000. The Prince of Wales has ordered a new racing yacht, speed to be the first consideration. Mrs. Lease, the Kansas populist, per* tonauy is a woman of modest and charming address. General Bocth, of the Salvation army has stated that tne "In Darkest England'' scheme is 5325,000 in debt. Great regret is felt in the artistic circles of Germany at tbe death of Professor Georg Bleibtreu, the famous battle painter. The will of tbe late Wilson G. Hunt, multi-millionaire, who died in New York recently, leaves *8 J,COO to Cooper Institute. Mrs. fctkvjenson, mother of the VicePresident-elect, is eighty-tbree years of age, and one of tbe best authorities on the early history of Kentucky. M. Carnot, the French President, is a quiet, sedate and reserved man, who would seem to have no more backbone in him than there is in a jelly tisb. It is stated on the authority of Henry Villard that Prince Bismarck is interested in Milwaukee (Wis.) street railroad properties to the extent of, 150,000. mb. iiizea. kkndall, probably the oldest Mason in Massacausetw, died a few days sicca In Sterling, aged ninety-two. He was a Mason sixty-nine years. William Watson, who received tho priaa for the best ode on Tennyson and was looked on as hia most probable successor as .Poet Laureate, has become violently insane. It is said that Superintendent Byrnes, of the Hew York Police, was enriched 940,000 within a week after Jay Gould's death by buying Western Union Telegraph stock. Only three men who were members of th9 United States Senate in 1818 are now living ?James W. Bradbury, of Maine; ex-Governor Felch, of Michigan, and General George W. Jones, of Iowa. Sib John Bernard Burke, Ulster King at Arms, and editor of the famous record of British nobility known as "Burke's Peerage," died, a few days ago, in Dublin. Sir Bernard was born in 1615 in London. The late Monsignor Veriu?, Coadjutor Bishop Of British New Guinea, received news of his appointment while he was in mud up to his knees, helping to draw logs from a swamp wherewith to build a mission station. The Earl of Dunraven, who will race for the America's Cup, is Mr. Quin by his family name, but he has others, some or which are Earl of Mount Earl, Viscouut Mount EarJ, Viscount Adare, Baron Adare, Baron Kelly. He's a baronet besides. Peter Hap.t, sixty-nine years old, a war veteran of whom it is related that when in the thick of the fight at Port Sumter the American flag was shot down he, upon the request or Major Anderson, nailed another to the staff through a storcu of bullets, died the other day at bis home in Brooklyn. Charles Reh jithe. the oldest bandmaster In the United States, died recently in New York. During the late war he wrote "Jur National Union March," which was dedicated to President Lincoln. In 1872 he reccive i the appointment as bandmaster of the United Statee Academy Band at West Point, N.Y., and resigned that position in 1887 because of illness. He was sixty-six years old. TO START THE FAIR. Cleveland Will Set All the Machinery Going at Chicago. Grovor Cleveland will be asked to make t speech on May 1st, 1893, at the Chicago Exposition. At the close of the speech Mr. Cleveland will touch the electric bell start' n A/Yl 1'AHOQ nCMvar nlanh AVAP in IUg bUO 17, WV UUiOV pvn Wk |>??mw V> ... Machinery Hall that is to run all the whirring wheels of the fair. This has been decided by the Committed on Ceremonies. The other exercises will coexist of the reading of a poem by Dr. Wendell Holmes and a prayer. tended to have the ceremonies of theflBn^H character. The Executive Coratni^^^^H pressed a desire to do away with monies at the May opening, but outlined by the Cere monies Comm^H^BHB probably be followed. Because of tne recent deatba In dent'a family it was decided that thefl^Hnfl Cabinet receptions and Cabinet be omitted during the holidays, aHDD tbere should b? no regular New Y^^HH caption at the VV hite House. ^Be^KX / ! . " i - * THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eautera and Middle states. The first 60,000 of the new Columbian souvenir half dollars ware shipped a teW days ago from the United States Mint id Philadelphia. The first delivery of 10.000 coins left on the 9:30 express for New York City. The remaining 50,000, including the H0,000 very first impression, were consigned to the Sub-Treasury at Chicago. Ait American syndicate, with headquarters in New York City, has purchased the right to collect the cu*totn3 revenues oJ the republic of San Domingo. The five-story brick building in Brooklyn, N. Y., owned and occupied by William C. A. Jurgens. wholesale grocer, was total I / destroyed by fire with several of the adjoining buildings on either side. Tne loss will probably foot up to nearly $500,000. The birthday of the poet John C.' Whittier was celebrated bv his former townspeople at Amesbury, Mass. Thk trial of Father Corrigan was discontinued by order of Bishop Wigger of the Catholic Church and all procaedings against the accused Hoboken (NT. J.) priest are now over. Concessions were mads by both sides, thanks to the industry of a comaiittee which has been quietly working for ten days to effect a settlement between Father Corrigan and his BishoD. Theke firemen were killed by a fallin? wall at a fire in the Fart Oransre Milling Company's elevator, at Albany, N. Y. Robert Hillekight and a companion. Dame utucnown, were washed off the breakwater at Buffalo, N. Y., by the heavy sea, and both were drowned. They had bsen out duck shooting. Stamboul, the holder of the world' j trottine record lor stallions (2.07>?), was sold at auction at the American Institute Building, New York City, for #41,00J, E. H. Harriman, a retirel Wall street broker, being the purchaser. The price fetched was a disappointment. The $75,000 paid by the Chilean Government in settlement in full for all claims arising out of the Baltimore affair at Valparaiso were covered into the Sub-Treasury at New York a few days ajjo. Arrangements were immediately made for its eqaitable distribution to the people for whom it is intended. Charles P. Cadma.k. a cashier in the New YorK Postofflce, is missing and his accounts are $5300 short. South and West. /he Kansas Board of Canvassers issued e? certificate of election to Cimpbell, the Populist elector, whose election was contested on the ground of a clerical error. They make all the Kansas electors Populists. Electoral vote in Wyoming is: Harrison, 3370; VVtaver. 7543. John Burns, the murderer of Maurice Higgins, has been hanged at Missoula, Mon. The official count for Idaho has been completed by the Sasretary of State, as follows: Weaver, 10,43 ); Harrison, 8799; McConuelJ, Rspublican, for Governor, has 1409 plurality. FiR3T Sergeant Lloyd, Troop A, Seventh Cavalry, committed suicide at Fort Riley, TTor, hr nhontinor nimsslf In the head with a revolver. He was with hi* troop ia the battle of Wounded Kaee and received a painful wound. Since then ne had bean in poor health and was despondent. O. R. Jo.ves was shot and instantly killed, and his bon, Jesse Jones, shot, .fatally, at their home near Lsicastsr, twelve miles west of Asheville, N. C. Tbey opposed a Sheriffs po9se. Thk official canvass of the vota oast for Presidential electors in Michigan shows the following result: Republican, 232,703; Democratic, 202,290; Populist, 19,792; Prohibitionists, 20,509. Republican plurality, 20,412, The First, Second. Savanth, and Tenth Districts were carried by the 'Democrats, and the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh and Twelfth by tho Republicans, thus giving the Republicans nine and the Damocrati five votes in the .Electoral uoueje. The funeral of Senator Gibson tock place at Lexington, Ky. In a fljfht among a gan% of laborers at Hog Run. near Walton, Ky., on th9 Louis* villa and Nashville Railroai, two mea were killed and two more were fatally injured. There was a heavy snowstorm in Mississippi and Texas. A mysterious sickness among convict laborers on an Arkansas railroad o a used tbe death of four men. Washington. Ihe military post authorizsd by act ot Congress approved May 13, 1893, to be established at or near the city of Helena, Montana, will be known and designated as Fort Harrison, in compliment to the Presi* dent o" the Unite! States. Secretary of the Treasury Foster has sent to tue House an estimate of deticiency appropr. ating on aggregation $887,070 on account of tne postal servic?. By a unanimous vote oi all the members present tbe House Committee on Elections decided to report in favor of Edward Scull, the Republican sitting memocr rrotn me Twentieth Pennsylvania District, in the contest brought for his seat by Thomas Greevy, the Democratic contestant. Siobetaby Foster, of the Treasury, sent to the House a deficiency estimate aggregating $50,000 for tie quarantine ssrvica for the fucal year 1893. Tbe report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics shows that '.'7.433 immigrants arrived during the month of November last, against 38,615 in Novemfer, 1391. During me eleven months ending Novemnjr 30 the 1?. WA<J 5J0 ?<IS fiaain^r. numuw wk uuua.^.?? ? ?, ? 56.',0?3 during the corr^poaJing period in 1891. The annual report of Professor M?ndenhal), the Superintendent of tbe Coast ani Geodetic Survey, has been sent to Congress. It is made up largely of detailed reports of the operations of surveying par ties during the fiscal year ending Juue 3 J, 1893, of which there were more than eighty-lire in the field, actively employed. President-elect Cleveland telegraphed to tbe Arlington and completed arrangements for tbe suite of rooms be will occupy before the inauguration. The rooms eugaged are the larje suite on the second floor facing Vermont avenue. Thk Vice-President announced the appointment of Senator Gray, of Delaware, as Regent of the Smithsonian Institution in place of Senator Gibson, of Jjouisaua, deceased. Foreign. President Henreaux has be9n re-electea President of Sati Domingo for the third time, receiving 578 votes out of 030. T' flf.ATTV nlina Mn\Ialion. was hangwi at Cornwall, Canada, for the murder of Constable J. R, Davey on September 5 last. M. Charles Aime Mawe De Lesseps, Eouof Count Da Lessaps, and M. Harms IStienne Foniane, ana M.. san-Leroy Gave been arrested in Paris by direction of tha French Minister of Justice, M. Bourgeois, for their allezed connection with the Panama Canal frauds. A tors'ado passed over the town of Ora', Russia. Several of the suburbs were deva 1 * * * * : Arxtfrk nnh tpom mm3 j, douses ugiu^ uiu1u uvnu ... unrooted. The damasje wii particularly severe at Tanzer, where many persons were caught uader the falling buildings and killed. Final official statistics of the cholera epidemic in Russia have just been issued. According to these flsrures there have been 130,417 deaths from European and 135,343 deaths from Asiatic choler i since the outbreak of the disease in the Eoipire, making a total of 385,760 deaths. There have been twentv?flve cases of cholera at Hamburg, uermany, in tne past; week and two deaths. Burglars made a rich haul of jewels from L9lgh Court, near Bristol, England, tfhe seat of Sir Cecil Miles, b-sroaet. Lady Ues had left jewels to the value of $175,j^Kw a safe in her bedroom, unlocked. MM^UVluaA.nu uwa? is ucaa iu uu^iauu. ^MjH^ne of the world's forjaioit apecialHH^^Kparative an atom 7. Ha was bora July 20, 18)4. in the case of Charles other Panama Canal o( UHHeet in France. ^BB^H^^nml^ration societies hire been BHH|w<3 booking ate^ja paaseaHBnMBj^Ban porta. Hhjm| > > Whtl* tbr*? young girls, daughters of John and Win i i Clarke, were walking on the ice on rt >lnte Like, Canada, they broke fchronri i ii wans drowned. Air agree") mg hat been signed to release the Paris 1* \rnall faad. Meiira. Dillon, Davitt and .farriactoa will award jointly tbe old claim - not in excess of f70.00J, Messrs. Diltu 1 and Davitt will award the remainder. Joseph Mellor was hanged at Manchester, England, for the murder of his wife, Marr Ann Mellor. A decree was issued in Warsaw prohibit* ing the use of the Polish language by officials of every rank. LATEE NEWS. The big Philadelphia dress goods mills of Bachman & Co., burned a few days ago. Los?, $235,000. Tnrti Pimgta TTftvei acred five and " ? six years respectively, were founl drowned in Walker's Pond, fiurnside, Conn. True bills were found by the Grand Jury at Pittsburg, Penn., against H. F. Dempsey, the District Master Workman of the K. of L., and Gallagher, Davidson and Beatty, charged with being implicated in the Homestead poisoning. Thirty-two Homestead workmen are said to have been victims of Borgias. Two thousand others ! fire said to have been drugged. vlck-fresident-elect stevenson was entertained in Atlanta, Ga., by the Demo- ! cratic clubs of the oily. Three Bohemian woodchoppers?Alexander Toski, Albert Hinkarch aod John Lorbitski?were drowned in an ice hole near Winona, Minn. Police Captain1 Thomas Gaston, of Jackson, Tenn., shot and killed W. C. Strickland, a saloon keeper, for publicly making charges against his official conduct. General Rosecbans, Register of the Treasury, accompanied by his daughter, left Washington for California, where he will spend the winter near Los Angeles. An offer of Mine Superintendent Allen, of D-itte, Montana, to coin a silver dollar of more intrinsic value than the standard dollar at the rate of ninety cants apiece, will receive no consideration at the Treasury Department, for the reason that there is no legal authority for the acceptance of such an offer. ? Two more cases of Asiatic cholera hare appeared in Hamburg, Germany, and Emperor William is indignant at the authorities for concealing the situation. \ Ik an encounter between Dacoits and a force of native Indian policemeD, under _ command of British military officers, Lieutenant Gordon, of the Bombay Lancara, and four policemen were killed. THE LABOR WOBLD, ployed*61"1*11 al0ne there are 80,000 uaem' branch*1"011 ^ra<^e' ^ Improving in several Iw the manufacturing world there is wonderlul activity in ali directions. 8ijcce July the International Typographical Union has gained 2900 new members. The Baldwin Works at Philadelphia are turning out seventeen locomotives per week.Telephone girls, typewriters and sten* ographers in GUcago talk about organizing onion?. French unionists designate men who take the places of strikers as "atranglers" (etran* gleurs). The Eight Hour law has cost the Government an increase of from ten to twenty-five per cent. Soup kitchens have been established for the starving cotton operatives of Lancashire, England. There are seven concerns in the country making plate glass, and the annual capacity is 22.600,000 feet. A strong effort is being made to organize all the members of the building trades in the larger cities under the Knights of Labor. The exceeding severity of the present winter throughout the German Empire has caused untold misery among the working | classes. The elctric motormen of Louisville, Ky., J are compelled to collect fares and make change in addition to attending to the running of their cars. At Chaumont, France, the workmen went on strike to compel the dismissal of one of their comrades who had been elected to the Municipal Council but refused to vote for labor interests. Fbosc a recent report of the Factory Inspector of Pennsylvania it appears that in 728 workshops inspected there were 139,583 men, 71,983 women, and 20,693 children between twelve and sixteen years employed. Thomas Ridley, the veteran in service on the railroads of Pennsylvania, will shortly celebrate his fiftieth year in railroad service. He began his railroad career on what is now a part of the Philadelphia and Reading. Tbe Australian labor unions are agitating tor a Jaw prohibiting the importation of contract labor, more particularly that of Polynesians, Asiatics, Itusjiaus, Poles and Hebrews. West Australia is now more Asiatic than Caucasian. The wife of John Burns, the London labor leader, is said to be always with him in his work for the laboring people. While her husband was out among the men during the great dock strike she was often working twenty-four hours at a tima handing out rations to the hungry women and children. There are 160,000 working girls in Berlin, and how they manage to keep life in their bonies is past understanding. Of this noble army of martrys, 70,000 are sawing girls. Ihey receive from llfteen to seventy-five sents a day for their labor, and they are blithesome, patient and submissive, ani iome of them ara happy. RAILROAD SMASHUP, A Freight Train Crashes Into a Ca? boose in Minnesota, A frightful accident occurred oa the Great Northern Railroad at Nelson station, five miles east of Alexandria. Minn., in which eight men were killed and five were seriously injured. There had been a col* lision on the morning before at Nelson and a number of cars were wrecked. The wrecking train bad been there two days and was making up preparatory to pulling out for the East. About 1 o'clock in the morn* ing the wrecking train cabooje was left standing on the main track with a number of cars. An east-bound freight was due ar out 1 o'clock and had orders to side track for the passenger train due there at 1:20. The tireman on the freight tells the story as follows: There is a heavy grade west of the station, and as the treight with thirty-six cars, under charge of Conductor William Nickey and Engineer James Maloney, approached the switch steam was shut off ana brakes called lor. There was no perceptible decrease of speed, and Conductor Nickey AiimhoH nut-, of the ciboosa where he was. and began setting brakes, bnt the speed was tco great to stop. When within a train length of the caboose they saw the track was full ahead, aod both engineer and fireman jumped. The engine struck the wrecked traiD, and threw the caboose on top of the next car, setting both on fire. There were fourteen men in the caboose. One jumped off, five were wounded, three were burned beyond recognition, and four were killed. One other was burned and nothing of his body was found. The allied are: Nels 0. Dokken, Nelson; J~0 rtU Uoftjrfifin (Tmaklf John vuriaii. ouw ww am**** **~~-, ~ Enestrand, Spruce Hill; John Akerscn, Spruce Hill; Engatrajd'g nephew, name x_ OALENDAEFOE^93. r\j m i?.iki?li^i>i i^il Uii! i|imi!i f? l 2 "3 4 "15 ^ 7 Jih,. 1 8 91C 1113 13 14 '* * 3 4 6 6 7 8 1518171819 20 31 910(1112131416 22 23 24262827 38 ' 16171819 202122 293081 - 28 24 25 20 2T 28 29 w-lTi > 910U 12181415161718 6 7 8 9101112 1920212228 34 35 28 27 28 ? ... ? - 20 3122 23212526 1 3 8 4 27 28 58180 31... 8 6 7 8 91011 8*fL ~ IX.'.! 1 2 12181415101718 3 4 5.6 7 8 9 19 202122 28 24 35 , ? 26 27 28 ? 80 81 ~ ~ Attfl, 1 A. 24 26 26&7,282980 ^ 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 OA.. *1 ?* 4 5 ? 7 9101112181415 8 miO 111218jl4 1ft17 IS 10 20 21 22 1(16 17 18 19 20 21 28 24 25 26 27 58 ? ? 23 24 25[28|27te8 _ 80....- - llT.. - 1 3 8 4 5 6 BOTm - .J." 1 a a 4l 1 7 8 91011 1218 6 ? 7| 8 JlfflU 1415 lfl 17 18 19 20 12 18 If 15 W7U8 212223 24 2528 27 19 20 21 Ejato 25 . 28298081 . 28 27 28 29WM-.L.I Jut. l 2 8 D??..... i 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 .8 4 5| ? 7 8 9 11121814 15 16 17 10 11 12 1814 1810 20 21 22 23 24 17 18 19 20 21 hotel 252627 28 29 80 - 24 25 26 27 3BH9to| 31 ...|...|...|...|...|.-1 lii'1 i i i i ECLIPSES FOB 1893. lathe year 1893 there will be two Eclipses ?both or the Sua. . m . n i? . _ 4.L. a A _.ti iat>k 1. A local iS31ip39 Oi tag oaa, jxyvu iuiiu, 9:32 o'clock in the foranoon, in risible in North America, visible in South America, Atlantic Ocean, Africa, ani parts ot Europe and Asia. 2. An Annular Eclipse of the Son,October 9, at 3:17 o'clock in the afternoon, iuvisibla here, Visible in Western North America, Paoiflc Ocean and South America. THE FOUB SEASONS. D H. IC Winter begins 1892, Dec.21, and lasts 89 0 45 Spring ,T 1893, Mar. 20, " " 9219 54 Q ?1~- ?? ? TnnsQtf 4? QS UX3 Autmpi 44 " S3pt.28, " " 891*7 68 Winter " " Dee.23;trop.yr, 3ti5 5 8t MORMN'O STJlBS. Venus, until May 2. Mara, after September 8. Jupiter, after April 27 until November 18. Saturn, until March 29 af tor October <3. Mercury, until February 10, after March 81, until Jone 4, after August 8, until Sep* tember 20, after November 26. ZVXXi:TO STABS. Venus, after May 2. Mara, until Septanab?r 3. Jupiter, until April 27 after November 18. Saturn, after March29 until October 8. Mercurr, after February 16 until March 81, after June i until August 8, after September 20 until November 28. PLAJHCTS BRIGHTEST. Mercury, March lOfcb, July 15th, November 1st, setting then just after the Sun; also May 2i, August 23th, December 18tb, rising fVian inaf. hrfnrn t.h? Han. Saturn. March 29thuJ Mart, May 2Ut Jupiter, November 18cp. Veaat, December 6th. CHU&dH DATS AND C7CLK3 OF TIUS. Septuagesima Sunday January 29 SexagesimA Sunday February 5 Quinquazesima Sunday .February 12 Ash Wednesday '. February 15 Q ladrageslma Sunday February 19 Mid-lent Sunday March 12 Falm Sunday March 20 Goofl Friday March 81 Easter Sunday April 2 Low Sunday..... April 9 Rogation Sunday May 7 Ascension Pay May 11 Whit SundAV May 21 Trinity Sunday May 28 Corpus Chrlati June 1 First Sunday in Advent December 8 Christmas falls on Monday. Decoration Cay falls on Tuesday. i flinn /iTT?cin*r Tk-n a t\ briHAiUH UMDOUfl UBAUi Be Eiptrt* After a Long Illness at Hoc Spring*, Ark. SEXATOILKAWDJLLL L. GIBSON'. Senator Gib^Vt of Louisiana, died a few afternoons ago Mir Hot Springy Ark. At the time oil bis death Mr. Gibson was lurrounded by the members of hit family# He passed away a* though he had merely gone to sleep. : Ee bad been confined to his bed since. November 12, since which time his deJth had been expected daily. In accordant9, w,th hlj wishes it was decided te take his remains for bnrial to Laxingtoa, Kr., by the side of his wife, who diea several j-etirs ago. The funeral train bearing his remains left for Lexington next day. Randall Lee Gibson was born at Spring Hill, Ky., on Septembe/ 10, 1832, received his education, in Lexington, Ely., in Terra Bonne Parish, Louishna^at Yale, and in the Law Department of the Talane University of Louisiana, in 1855 he refused the Secretaryship of Lagatipa to Spain. He acted as aide to tha (iovilrnor of Louisiana at the commencement of fhe Civil War,and took a prominent place in the Confederate army. He was selected to the Forty-third Congress from the Second Congress District, but was not admitted. He was, however, a Representative in the Fdrty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth and Fortyseventh Congresses, and was elected to the (Jnited States Senate without opposition as a Democrat, taking his seat March 4; 1833. In 1888 he was re-elected, his term a? office running until March 3, 1S95. v A NEW SWISS PBESIDEtrt". Dr. Charles Schenfc Elected?SketcBN or uu career. Dr. Charles Schenk has been elected Presi* dent erf the Swiss Confederation, and A. Frey, Vice-President Dr. Charles Emmanuel Schenk was born at Berne in 1823, and was educated tor thi ministry. In 1845 he was appointed suffrapran Protestant pastor at Schupfan. In 1847 he was called to Liupen. and re turned three years later to his formei charge, as full pastor. He became populai politically, and was elected presiding officei of the Federal Assembly. From 1857 t< 1863 he represented cue Uanton or Berne ia the Federal Council, of which he was Vic? President in 1862. He was elected flvi times, from 1865 to 1880, President of th< Swiss Confederation. He was Minister ol the Interior ia 1S9L, and Vice-Presidem during 1892. ^ AEROLITE FDTOS SILVER, A 40,000-Pound Si one Plows Intc a Kieh Vela n Mexico. The largest aerolite erer seen in Mexico has been taken to the City of Mexico from! Jiminez, ia the State of iChlhuahua. The aerolite, which wJighs 40,000 pounds,' fell about four month? a?o about forty miles from Jiminez, aud i i it? course down the1 mountain aide plowed into a deep furrow,! revealing a rich vein^f silver, whichji be ing worked with grt'.t profit. ThejAt of transporting the atl'lite to that^H was ^ AJUBBH ? jn Jay Mould's Tomb. TToon "Lakefiew plot," the higbeffcj ground in Woodlawn Cemetery, New: York City, stands the mausoleum in which, wffl ml THE MAU80LEUH. s a stately granite structure of Ionic de- I H sign, uji the New York Son. It is the most costly and beautiful tomb hi the * cemetery. The plot alone cost $50,000. J The dimensions are thirty-three feet in length, twenty-two feet in width and \ twenty feet in height to the apex of the * roof. The mausoleum has six columns in ; | front and eleven on eafch side, in single I rows. Three rows of steps run up to the tomb on all sides. The interior space is twenty feet long, ' 4 seven feet wide, and thirteen feet high. ^ The roof is a solid slab of granite which weighs six tons. The floor is a plain marble slab. Along the sides of the in- . & terior are the catacombs. Of these then are twenty, tea on each aide, in double -jl rows. The rows are separated from each other by granite slabs. Each catacomb . " INTERIOR Or THE MAUSOLEUM. ^ is Tfr feet long and, 2$ feet wide. This [ entire structure weighs about 300 tons, \ and rests on a solid concrete foundation } ' 'A eight feet wide. * Bnlldln? a Railroad on Fa'th. From South Texas came a man who built 600 miles of railroad with a $5 bill V and faith, and the bill was a . borrowed ^ one. He moved up from Corpus Christ! to San Antonio with all of his posses aions heaped on a tw> wheeled cart. He got a charter to build a railroad* from San Antonio to Aransas Pass. He graded a mile of it, throwing a good deal more than one shovel of dirt with his own hands. The receiver of another road loaned this indefatigable builder enough old rails for a mile of track. In a distant part of the State was purchased an engine which had been condemned six years before and sent to the shops to be wrecked for scrap iron. Two old cars were picked up somewhere else at a bargain. And that old engine, drawing ... Jr-' those old cars, steamed into San. An- '3k tonio. ? On engine and cars in bold lettering M was painted in lamp-black, "S. and A. ^ P.." With one mile of old-rail track and 9 1 with the equipment of the old engine - - and tbe two old can, Uriah Lott started fl the Arkansas Pass system. There has Kg been some tall financiering in the history / H of railroad building in this country, but 4 JH there isn't anything which for dazzling pluck quite approaches the story of the building of this 600 miles of road in South Texas. To the one mile of track ' HI [ three were added?three miles by a dicker for some second-hand rails wnich Hj a street-car comoany bad bought from a narrow-gauge company. On this basis 'H a credit trade was made with a Pbiladelphia rolling-mill for ten miles of rails. H9 When they arrived there wasn't money Rflj enough in the treasury to pay'the freight. nfl But it was got somehow. Ten miles of HB track gave tbe foundation for bonds, hd which built forty miles more, and so the 90 system grew into its present proportions. K| This man who built the Aransas Pass H system rode from San Antonio to Chicago, at one critical period in his enter- H prise, was without a cent in his pocket. H He had transportation,but he hadn't any- H thing to buy food, and he went through hungry.?New Tork News. Wool From Glass. HB| The scientific journals of recent date, especially those which allot departments to the discussion of the glassworkers' * art, have been filled with marvelous ac- H counts of a wonderful glass composition 9 lately invented in Vienna. This' new H art makes the spinning of 4'glass wool" 9 possible and many fine webs of "crucial * n cloth" have already left the looms. The frizzled glass threads from which the cloth is woven are said to surpass in fineness not only tho finest cotton, but even the threads of the silkworm's cocoon, their softness and elasticity being even greater than that of manufactured siljt J "lint." Surgeons have already begun I to use this "wool" in place of cotton, I common wool and silk lint anc". the 1 chemists and apothecaries say that a > finely-woven web of cloth makes the most perfect filter that one could imagine. The finest and smoothest ofthese glass threads are being woven into textile fabrics, which in turn are made Into cushions, tablecloths, neckties, shawls, cuffs, collars and a variety of other patterns. In softness to the touch tftis glass yarn almost approaches siik Aims, being much like that of finest wcjol or cotton. It possesses remarkable strength, and not only remains un- ; changed in weight and warmth, but is noi altered from contact with any known acid. Being noninflammuble and in- ' combustible, as well is having great brilliancy and beauty of colon, it is especially suitable fo- dress goods, such fabrics being much warmer than those made from cotton or sheep's wool. J ff these things are all true the glass ( I and paper age will jointly occupy the i I saDpe throne.?St. Louis Republic. ?8 *|rhe Wanamakers have four homes? thd residence in Washington, one in *|H I PhlladelDhia, a cottage at Cape May X Point called tbe Lilemyn Cottage from H the) names of the two daughters, and 89 Liidenhuret, a very fine residence and H estate, about fifteen miles from Phila- 3H delyphia. ^ v <The Court of Pope Leo XIII comprises H ttAronna. ne&rlv 500 of whom bear 19 th 0 title of Chamberlain. He has ?wenty secretaries in his employ. J >< HE ,L_X_J